Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2017 08:22 PM UTC:
The last diagram I posted I currently don't intend to work on any further. I was checking out how the Diagram Designer could handle a variant of this kind of scale, which I'd previously considered, but had tentatively rejected. That's since it was recently suggested to me a variant this size for hexagonal 4D chess really might be better than the 4D board I posted the second last time that I gave a diagram in this thread, because a knight's tour that includes a centre hex on the same 2D board is impossible, if a knight moves only on the same 2D board, on that 4D board's less numerous & smaller sized 2D boards. So, I thought I'd check out how a diagram for the bigger dimension 4D board (with 37 2D boards) might be seen in practice (as you can tell from what I posted, it appears the individual hexes would be too hard to see, even if the 4D board only barely filled the [my, at least] screen, rather than was bigger than it). That reason makes me further reject the idea of such a larger 4D hexagonal variant even more than the reasons I already had decided (tentatively) to reject it because of.
Today I had a bit of a shock because I suddenly thought the checkering pattern for my second last diagram was all wrong. However, it works well for the movements I currently plan on for all the pieces (even the bishops, which I initially was concerned with), except for the knights perhaps (they [and some other piece types, too] have a similar 'issue' in my Hexagonal Raumschach variant, which is merely a 3D variant). It seems that sometimes you cannot have everything that you want, with any checkering pattern that you might try.
The last diagram I posted I currently don't intend to work on any further. I was checking out how the Diagram Designer could handle a variant of this kind of scale, which I'd previously considered, but had tentatively rejected. That's since it was recently suggested to me a variant this size for hexagonal 4D chess really might be better than the 4D board I posted the second last time that I gave a diagram in this thread, because a knight's tour that includes a centre hex on the same 2D board is impossible, if a knight moves only on the same 2D board, on that 4D board's less numerous & smaller sized 2D boards. So, I thought I'd check out how a diagram for the bigger dimension 4D board (with 37 2D boards) might be seen in practice (as you can tell from what I posted, it appears the individual hexes would be too hard to see, even if the 4D board only barely filled the [my, at least] screen, rather than was bigger than it). That reason makes me further reject the idea of such a larger 4D hexagonal variant even more than the reasons I already had decided (tentatively) to reject it because of.
Today I had a bit of a shock because I suddenly thought the checkering pattern for my second last diagram was all wrong. However, it works well for the movements I currently plan on for all the pieces (even the bishops, which I initially was concerned with), except for the knights perhaps (they [and some other piece types, too] have a similar 'issue' in my Hexagonal Raumschach variant, which is merely a 3D variant). It seems that sometimes you cannot have everything that you want, with any checkering pattern that you might try.